Arches And Fountain, Gate, Gatepiers, Cemetery Including Boundary Walls, Ford Road, Crieff is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 2002. Cemetery, fountain. 1 related planning application.
Arches And Fountain, Gate, Gatepiers, Cemetery Including Boundary Walls, Ford Road, Crieff
- WRENN ID
- muffled-sill-hawthorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 2002
- Type
- Cemetery, fountain
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cemetery opened 1858, extended 1881.
GRAVESTONES: variety of classical and gothic monuments with some obelisk and Celtic cross memorials, including:
White marble Celtic cross 'Sacred to the memory of Charlotte Mara Wood beloved wife of Sir William F A Elliott 8th Baronet of Stobs, Roxburghshire, who died at Ruberslaw, Crieff 29th November 1878'. 3-stage obelisk on base with inscription 'In memoriam Daniel Robertson Esq of Dalnaglar/The first and for 30 years able and successful general manager of the National Provincial Bank of England'.
Small monument surmounted by posy of carved stone flowers 'Erected by James and Elizabeth Gowans in memory of their son John. Born on the 19th and died on the 25th April 1858'.
TRIUMPHAL ARCHES: large ashlar blocks, voussoirs and keystones. Pair of flat-coped triumphal arches flanking entrance to earliest garden with low flat-coped walls punctuated with squat pyramidally-coped ashlar piers.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: rubble boundary walls with gablet-coped ashlar pedestrian entrance and decorative cast-iron gate immediately W of main gate with large flat-coped rectangular-plan harl and brick gatepiers and 2-leaf decorative ironwork gates.
FOUNTAIN: 1887. Decorative cast-iron 4-stage fountain by 'George Smith & Co/Sun Foundry/Glasgow' sited at centre of 1858 garden. Circular fountain base at centre of large polygonal plinth planted with flowers. Plain 1st stage giving way to reduced columnar 2nd stage with 3 storks variously posed at base of flower stem with trumpet basin, 3rd stage much smaller version of 2nd (without birds) giving way to further reduced final stage of small stem surmounted by further bird.
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